Tuesday, March 01, 2005

Turns Out All Them Fat Offensive Linemen

Really are fat.

These statistics are pretty gross. However, it turns out that this study doesn't examine muscle composition/body fat percentages. Now I'm not saying every Tre Johnson out there has a rippling eight-pack underneath their layers of blub, but this is clearly a limitation to the survey.

Does any of this matter? The NFL is number one in part because we love our fat guys. After all, T.O. may be technically overweight at 6'3", 226, but that won't keep fans like C. Stewart from voicing their homoerotic intrigue and nonstop comments that he's an "incredible physical specimen."

1 Comments:

At 7:02 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

FYI - there's NYT editorial today on this.

http://nytimes.com/2005/03/04/opinion/04fri4.html

- MB

 

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